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What is an online auction site worth nowadays? What left Taylor Swift streaming in anger? How many Democratic senators are left in the US Deep South? And which has fallen further — the rouble or the oil price? The numbers that add up to 2014

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$66bn Value of Botox-maker Allergan implied by Activis’s friendly takeover, the largest pharma deal of the year

£297m Fine paid by GlaxoSmithKline after it was found guilty by a Chinese court of bribing doctors

$84,000 Price of a 12-week course of Sovaldi, which cures hepatitis C

$25bn Amount raised by Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce company, when it went public in September — the largest-ever US IPO

$19bn Price paid by Facebook for messaging app WhatsApp in February, setting the tone for a year of gravity-defying internet valuations

$8.9bn Fine paid by BNP Paribas, despite objections by the French government, for breaking US sanctions

$178bn Total fines paid by major global banks in the wake of the financial crisis